Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival

Musical Showcase: Traditional & Hip Hop

Lightbox Film Center 3701 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Live Performance In this showcase we will be exploring the connections between traditional and contemporary, showing how the lineage of musical practice within multiple generations of diasporic communities has helped create innovative approaches to the wholly American genre of hip hop. As we struggle to define what Asian American music is, what better way of …

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InterAct Theater 302 S Hicks Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Live Performance Writer & Director: Stephanie Kyung-Sun Walters 90 mins | Live Performance Celeste Moon is new to internet fame. Followed on social media and IRL, this hyper-trendy insta-poet is no stranger to looking over her shoulder. But after a series of mysteriously specific packages falls into her hands, she is forced to face her …

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Live Performance: Voided

Lightbox Film Center 3701 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Writer, Director & Performer: Pratima Agrawal 80 mins | Live Performance What is it like to be an unconventional Indian woman trying to exist in a marginalizing world? Voided is a solo performance inspired by Pratima’s own experiences and the true story of Kalpana Chawla (the first Indian female astronaut in space and one of …

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Live Performance The DJZ

Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

12-5pm | Asian Arts Initiative Lead Artists: Aizhanneya Carter and Claris Park Welcome to the Department of Judgement Zoning. We invite you to navigate the bizarrely familiar world of The Department of Judgement Zoning where identity rules and bureaucracy is not as mundane as it seems… Efficiency is valued at the DJZ, so please make …

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